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Philip Roth's "The Humbling": Axler's Theater

The New York Review of Books | Elaine Blair | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

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Axler's Theater Elaine Blair The New York Review of Books "The Humbling" by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp., $22.00 One of the ...

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Philip Roth and Woody Allen: Have I Got a Girl for You!

David Finkle | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

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David Finkle

Roth and Allen are producing works it's difficult not to describe as clichés. What could be more commonplace than men obsessed with proving that male elders remain attractive to their female juniors?

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The Philip Roth Reader: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

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Karen Stabiner

In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year in college I got a postcard from a boy in my sociology class. It read something like this: "Please, read Goodbye, Columbus right now."

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

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We're back again with your weekly book review round-up: Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of "Peter Pan", Piers Dudgeon The...

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Philip Roth On The Humbling, The Internet, And Nora Roberts

The Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

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At 76, Mr. Roth continues to explore the themes that have defined his work: the eroding of family ties; man's struggle with depression and loneliness ...

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Talk to Me

Wednesday Martin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

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Wednesday Martin

Selling a book, to me at least, feels an awful lot like flirting, and also kind of hand-holding, and also like being in an very committed relationship with many, many people at once.

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Exit Ghost, Enter Roth: A Review of The Humbling

Anna Dubenko | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

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Anna Dubenko

In The Humbling's three fantastic acts, the reader is thrown into a dramatic maelstrom, which has but one Chekovian outcome and raises many novel questions.

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Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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Jesse Kornbluth

Roth is 76 now. He's outlived all of his rivals. He's our most prominent novelist. And over 30 books, he's learned how to disturb us -- and keep us reading.

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Could We Actually Be Living in A Golden Age of Literacy?

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

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Josh Rosenblatt

Young people are writing more than in any generation before. Like the fella said, you add 140 to 140 to 140 to 140 and pretty soon all those numbers start adding up to something.

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That Student-Teacher Thing

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

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Dennis Danziger

What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.

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Why Can't a Woman (Writer) Be More Like a Man?

Jennifer Weiner | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

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Jennifer Weiner

The dichotomy of men writing big, important books about war and women writing little, lapidary books about domestic life is shifting.

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Philip Roth Has 2 More Novels On The Way

AP | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — Fifty years after debuting with "Goodbye, Columbus," Philip Roth is as prolific as ever. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announc...

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The Meritless Nobel Prize?

Scott Tomford | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media

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Scott Tomford

Thursday morning, somebody will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature... and that somebody probably won't be American.

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Indignation Review: Philip Roth Does the 1950s

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

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Steven G. Kellman

Set against the backdrop of the Korean conflict, Roth's new novel appears when most Americans remain detached from another distant, undeclared war.

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Why Book Publishing Is Dead (Part One)

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business

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Richard Laermer

It's starting to make little sense why I would write something that while widely read could be given out in a "cleverer" format.

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